- Political Revolutions
- Industrial Revolution
- Egalitarian Revolutions
29 November 2017
The Storming of the Bastille, by Jean-Pierre Houël (1789)
The execution of Louis XVI, copperplate engraving by Georg heinrich Sieveking (1793)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM
Casablanca (1942)
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Discussion Questions:
How does the anthem reflect an active application of Enlightenment ideals?
In its presentation of nationalist rhetoric, in what ways does the anthem reject the earlier European status quo politically? Socially?
Battle of the Pyramids, a decisive victory for the French under Napoleon Bonaparte over local Ottoman forces, fought on 21 July 1798. By Louis-François Lejeune (1808).
Napoleon: Total War (2010), a video game series combining real-time battles with turn-based grand strategy
The Reception of Lord Byron at Missolonghi, 5 January 1824. A noted Romantic poet, Byron fought and died for the Greek Revolution, in part ensuring the intervention of western powers on their behalf. By Theodoros Vryzakis (1860).
Liberty Leading the People, romantic personification of the July Revolution of 1830. By Eugène Delacroix (1830)
The Revolution of 1848 in Berlin, showing monarchist (horizontal stripes) and republican (vertical columns) flags painted circa 1848-1850
The unification of Italy, 1815-1870
Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1866
The proclamation of the German Empire in the Versallies Hall of Mirrors on 18 January 1871. By Anton von Warner (1885)
A reproduction of a Spinning Jenny invented in 1764, which reduced the amount of work needed to produce cloth, creating the start of the factory system
The Salamanca built in 1812, one of the world's earliest locomotives, painted by George Walker (1813)
Wanderer above the sea of fog, by Caspar David Friedrich (1818)
https://youtu.be/3BIvqbyku5g?t=1m59s
As re-written and performed by Billy Bragg (2009)
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Discussion Questions:
What ideals are expressed in this anthem? How do they compare and contrast with those of the La Marseillaise?
How does the message communicated compare and contrast with that of the Romantic and Modernist movements?
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